CENTER CITY (WPVI) -- People lined the sidewalk down the block Wednesday waiting to see the major relics of Saint Maria Goretti. At the National Shrine of Saint Rita of Cascia on South Broad Street, a ...

July 6 is the feast of St. Maria Goretti, an Italian girl who fought off an attempt at rape in 1902 and paid for it with her life. Pope Pius XII canonized her in 1950. I’ll admit that, every time July ...

It was recently announced that Saint Maria Goretti in Washington County would close at the end of the 2023-24 school year. In 2019, a short four years ago, the school moved to its current location and ...

The pilgrimage of St. Maria Goretti in the United States has drawn huge crowds wherever she stops. It has skyrocketed new interest and devotion to her. Just in time comes a new book called The Life ...

Fittingly, St. Maria Goretti went out a winner. With the private Catholic high school set to close its doors for good at the end of this academic year, the Gaels took the field one last time Friday ...

Next week, Blessed Trinity Catholic Church will host the remains of St. Maria Goretti, the Catholic Church’s youngest saint, who died a martyr in 1902 in Nettuno, Italy, at age 11, after she fended ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Thousands of Catholics gathered to witness a first in Chicago. The relic of St. Maria Goretti, the youngest canonized saint, is on display at St. Cantius Church in the city's Goose ...

Former longtime St. Maria Goretti boys basketball coach Cokey Robertson called the Gael Center "the Palestra of the (Baltimore) Catholic League." On Friday, the final Goretti home basketball game was ...

You held back my body from the pit, and delivered my foot from the power of Sheol. -Sirach 51: 1-2 It is 1961, and the author and essayist Pietro Di Donato is lying on a bed in a room at the Capuchin ...

Worshippers venerate the relics of St. Maria Goretti at St. John Cantius Church in Chicago Oct. 12. The major relics, which are virtually all of the skeletal remains of the saint, known as the ...